Körperperformance

Chiara DAZI, Soli KIANI, Joachim HASLINGER et Philippine SCHAEFER

With photographic images – as a precise cut through time or capturing the processual, sharply focussed or blurrily formulated – four photographers Chiara Dazi, Joachim Haslinger, Soli Kiani & Philippine Schaefer throw light on communication forms of the body. The multiformity of the physical expression of passion reveals itself as a primordial instrument of nonverbal communication; here, the body is the conditio sine qua non of human nature and reaches into external and internal actions. The performative character of images of concrete bodies in action persists – as a committed reassurance on the physical precondition of social and individual existence – against its medial dissolution and fabrication in millions of repetitions. The image of the animated body, the archetype of the self-consciousness of the species, needs to be updated each time, as a postulate of a humanism that is constantly threatened in different ways. Markus A. Castor